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“yes, the government should open other people’s data”
Traditionally, the Open Knowledge Foundation has worked to open non-personal data – things like publicly-funded research papers, government spend...

Last year the Open Knowledge Foundation worked with the European Journalism Centre to publish the Data Journalism Handbook, a free, openly licensed reference book showing journalists how to use data t...

This post is authored by Vitor Batista, who works as developer for the Open Knowledge Foundation, and Neil Ashton, Data Roundup Editor for the School of Data blog.
It is cross-posted from the PBS Idea...

In the coming months many governments around the world will decide whether databases of who really owns and controls companies should be made public or not.
As we’ve said before, we think registers o...

This is a guest blog post from Open Steps, an initiative by two young Berliners Alex (a software developer from Spain) and Margo (a graduate in European politics from France) who decided to leave thei...

The global community of Open Knowledge Foundation Local Groups around the world is once again brimming with great tales of how the community is working tirelessly to promote open data and open knowled...

A depiction of a banquet by 17th Centruy Italian artist, Morazzone, one of the many scans now in the public domain
Cross-posted from the OpenGLAM Blog.
Yesterday the J. Paul Getty Trust launched its...

Who pays what for a given country’s natural resources?
With billions of dollars changing hands for access to oil, gas and mineral reserves every year, there is huge potential for corruption, conflict...

The Open Economics Working Group would like to introduce the Open Economics Principles, a Statement on Openness of Economic Data and Code. A year and a half ago the Open Economics project began with a...